The Tale of the Monster Hard Drive
Feb. 20th, 2019 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrA week or so back, Doug gave me a 500 gig Western Digital hard drive. It was a PATA (IDE) drive. Since new computers don't *do* PATA anymore, he had no use for it. But since I still use a lot of systems that are old enough to use them, I could use it.
I had another drive I'd had for a while (same model in fact) and since I was running low on space on the NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes, I decided to plug them into my main box to use for storing some files that weren't as important from other drives.
Things were copying well when all of a sudden an error message popped up about the drive no longer being available.
I went into Computer Management, and did a refresh on the drive list. the 500 gig drive didn't show up anymore. but a "new" drive did show up. It had a semi-random string of ccharacters as a drive label.
And it showed as having two partitions. One of 16 gig, and the other of 2048 gig. (figures from memory, the may be a bit off). I couldn't do anything to the partitions. Got error messages.
I stuck it in my "bench" system and got much the same results. Tried accessing it with a Linux drive partitioning CD. Same deal.
*something* went south. And I now have a drive that reports that it iis a 1.3 *petabyte* drive!
If only...
I had another drive I'd had for a while (same model in fact) and since I was running low on space on the NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes, I decided to plug them into my main box to use for storing some files that weren't as important from other drives.
Things were copying well when all of a sudden an error message popped up about the drive no longer being available.
I went into Computer Management, and did a refresh on the drive list. the 500 gig drive didn't show up anymore. but a "new" drive did show up. It had a semi-random string of ccharacters as a drive label.
And it showed as having two partitions. One of 16 gig, and the other of 2048 gig. (figures from memory, the may be a bit off). I couldn't do anything to the partitions. Got error messages.
I stuck it in my "bench" system and got much the same results. Tried accessing it with a Linux drive partitioning CD. Same deal.
*something* went south. And I now have a drive that reports that it iis a 1.3 *petabyte* drive!
If only...
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Date: 2019-02-20 09:06 pm (UTC)*snerk*
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Date: 2019-02-20 09:16 pm (UTC)I'm trying to scrape together the money for a new HD for one of the NAS boxes. I'd *like* to get a 12 tb, or a 10 tb, but may have to settle for an 8.
ps. that'd be one *hell* of a level up!